PAHIATUA RACES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XX, Issue 5190, 19 July 1915, Page 5

PAHIATUA RACES.

NEXT WEEK’S GATHERING.

A meeting of the stewards of the Pahiatua Racing Club was held at the Commercial Hotel.on Saturday evening. There were present: Messrs J. McCardle (chairman), H. McSherry, P. Tulloch, S. Girdwood, E. Sullivan, W. I. Husband, E. Darley and the secretary (Mr Arnold Weston). A letter was received from the Pahiatua Band, offering its services at £5 per day, the club to provide conveyance to and from the course. The matter was*: left in the hands ot the secretary. The question of engaging boys to assist the gate-keepers , was left in the hands of the secretary. It wa s decided to procure two sets ot saddle cloths for the meeetmg. The charges lev admission were fixed as follow : To course Is, to saddling Paddock, ..gentlemen ,ss, ladies 2s 6d, horscrifn 2sj vehicles (including motor cars) 2s dtf Officials were appointed as follows: Heading-in stewards, Messrs Hare, Sullivan and Girdwood; blackboard, Mr H. McSherry; saddle-cloth and numbers, Mr Tulloeli; starter’s steward, Mr Rodney; gate stewards, Messrs McCardle, Husband and Girdwood ; hurdle stewards, Messrs W. D. Tavlor and G. H. Main assistant; luncheon steward, Mr J. McCardle; Mr Miller was appointed to collect jockevs’ fees, etc. It was left in the hands of the secretary to appoint two men to act with stretchers for ambulance purposes. Messrs McCardle and Johansen were appointed a committee to act in conjunction with two from the W oodlands Hunt to arrange the steeplechase course and have jumps made. Acceptances for the Pahiaua Racine Chib’s meeting and the Woodlands Steeplechase gathering close with the secretary (Mr A. Weston) tomorrow evening at 10 o clock. In referring to the forthcoming racing fixtures in Pahiatua, the Napier Dailv Telegraph’s sporting writer says: The Pahiatua Racing Club has an exceedingly favourable augury for its approaching annual meeting, for the nomination fees for six events totals £Bl, and as the stakes only amount to £3lO, it looks fair to assume that with the entries for the Maiden Hack, and acceptances for other events to come in that the Club will get owners to provide half of the prize money. The W oodlands Hunt Club appear as if they were in for a win in connection with their first totalisator meeting to be held at the end of the present month, for they have received nominations to the extent of £7B in fees, while the stakes to be distributed only amount to 225 sovs, acceptance money, sale of privileges and race cards, with the revenue receivable from the gates and percentage from the totalisator, should send The Club upwards on the primrose path of profit. MAN AWATU STEEPLECH ASF.. If the acceptances in connection with the Manawatu Hunt Steeplechase totalisator meeting are to be accepted as a criterion, the gathering at Awapuni on W ednes<lay promises to be the most noteworthy of its series. For the Manawatu Steeplechase nine figure in the list of probable contestants, and as the majority of them have been over big country before the race should give rise to some enthusiasm.